//------------------------------// // Breaking out // Story: The day Twilight saved love // by TwiwnB //------------------------------// A bed made of hay. Walls of massive stone. A window barred by steel. And nothing else to eat than the bed. Twilight was in jail. “What am I going to do now?” she asked herself. She had thought, for a moment, that her brother would come and save her, but if he had indeed come, it was only to tell her not to worry and that Cadance would take good care of her. So at that point, Twilight was also considering that Shining Armor might have turned evil too, even if she knew in her heart that it wasn’t the case. And then there was that thing on her horn preventing her to use her magic. So no teleportation and no blasting off the door. And even if she was able to come out of her cell, what would she do? Nopony was going to believe her. She hadn’t believed it herself. “It’s hopeless.” she sighed. “I wouldn’t give up hope right now your highness.” said a voice from the other side of the door. Twilight knew that voice. Not very well, but she was certain to have already heard it somewhere. “It’s me, Flash Sentry, you majesty. I’m with the Resistance. Give me just a moment and I’ll open that door.” Twilight had forgotten about him, but it was making sense. She had been advised to go see him as she would have arrived in the crystal empire. Looking back, that’s what she should have done. But she couldn’t, because she was in love with him. A sentence that wasn’t making much sense now. “Here, it’s open!” Flash triumphantly whispered. The door opened and Twilight found herself facing Flash. He was looking at her and smiling with a dumb smile. And he was staying in the middle of the door. And he was still looking at her. “Hum hum…” Twilight let out. “Oh, yes, sorry…” Flash Sentry stepped aside to let Twilight pass, looking away and badly hiding how much he was blushing. He then unlocked the magic inhibitor on her horn. “We have to rescue Lyra and Bon Bon.” Twilight decided. It was the only logical thing to do, not only because nopony else would believe her, but because she felt guilty for having had them arrested in the first place. “We are here Twilight.” Said Lyra’s voice coming from the ceiling. Twilight and Flash looked up, only to see Lyra and Bon Bon fall on them. “Sorry.” Bon Bon said. “How did you escape? What were you doing on the ceiling?” Twilight asked. Bon Bon looked at Lyra and smiled, as Lyra looked at Bon Bon and smiled too. Both began to laugh. “Thanks to Flash here, we were allowed to take some affairs with us.” Bon Bon explained. “So I took my acid launcher bow tie that helped us cut through the door’s lock, our invisibility dress to go unnoticed as well as our suction pad shoes to avoid bumping into anypony.” Twilight was only now understanding what kind of special agent Bon Bon, or Sweetie Drops, really was. And she was impressed. “What about the earrings?” She asked, out of curiosity. “It’s a present from Lyra: I couldn’t leave them behind, now could I?” Bon Bon explained, looking with an accomplice grin at Lyra. “Also, I look good with them.” “You say that, but you never put them on.” Lyra complained. “And those you gave me are itching.” “You’re never satisfied. Can’t you at least once compliment me on something?” “Do something worthy of a compliment and we will see. For example, why not begin with the cleaning?” “I would do the cleaning if you let me do it, but every time I plan to do it, you’ve already finished it!” “That’s because you’re way too slow, that’s why.” “Oh I’m slow, really?” “Yeah, you’re slow, and you snort when you sleep.” It sounded like both of them were fighting, but Twilight could see the two mares looking at each other, and she could hear the accent of pleasure in every word they were throwing at each other. Once again, they were muzzle against muzzle, eyes to eyes, ready to brawl or to… The obviousness of the situation hit Twilight so hard she almost fell to the ground, which interrupted the two mares and more than worried Flash Sentry. “Are you okay?” They all asked her. “You two are in love!” Twilight said, to them as well as herself. Both Lyra and Bon Bon blushed, looked at each other, blushed even harder and looked away. “No, I mean, no, you’ve got the wrong idea…” Lyra said. “Exactly, no, I mean, it’s like that. I’m just… she is just my best friend, that’s all.” Bon Bon explained. “Yeah, we are just friends. Simply friends. Only just friends.” Twilight could have strangled them. Even Flash knew they were in love. “You don’t understand.” Twilight explain. “Your love is the key! It is very unlikely that I could convince my friends to use the magic of friendship against Cadance, but the power your love possesses is enough to overcome her. I could clear the evil from her if only you recognize you’re in love and let me use it!” “But we aren’t in love. Bon Bon doesn’t love me. She is just my friend and I’m very lucky to have her as my friend.” But as she had said those words, Lyra saw something in Bon Bon eyes that she had almost never seen before: sadness. “What?” Bon Bon responded. “Of course I’m your friend. I mean, even if I were to love you, I know that you wouldn’t love me. You’ve been talking about how stallions looked so much, it’s clear you wouldn’t be interested.” “Stallions? What are you talking about? I only talked about them to find out what your… I mean how you felt… I mean I just wanted to know!” Flash Sentry slowly came near Twilight and told her: “They really take their time, don’t they?” Twilight was of the same opinion. But watching those two mares looking at each other, talking to each other, overcoming the silly wall that had separated them for seemingly no reason at all, it was just a beautiful spectacle. “Are you saying… You mean that you… all this time?” Bon Bon said. “Why do you think I followed you everywhere in all those crazy adventures? I know friends are there for each other, but I followed you in Tartarus for ponies sake! Literally in Tartarus!” “I know, I didn’t want you to come because I was afraid you would get hurt.” “And that’s why I came, because I couldn’t stand the idea you could not come back.” “You’re actually in love with me?” Bon Bon asked. “I will never pardon my stupidity, but I love you more than myself.” “I… I… I just don’t know what to say!” Bon Bon responded. “That’s just like you. You don’t have to say it.” Lyra told her with a snarky grin. But Bon Bon just jumped on her and kissed her during what felt like an eternity. Mostly because Twilight wanted to go confront Cadance in order to put an end to her evil plans, and she was stuck looking at two mares kissing who didn’t want to let each other go for the rest of their lives. And then, Twilight noticed that Flash was looking at her again, with tears in his eyes. “What?” Twilight asked. “Nothing…” Flash Sentry replied, looking away with a sigh. “Nothing at all.” Twilight wasn’t blind. She knew perfectly what the look of that stallion meant. It was flattering even. But she simply wasn’t in the mood for that sort of stuff. There were more important things to take care of first. And when she noticed that Lyra and Bon Bon had decided to not stop at just kissing, she took the initiative and interrupted them. “You will have plenty of time for that, but not if we don’t stop Cadance right now. Are you with me?” Lyra and Bon Bon looked at each other, smiled confidently and said: “We are ready!”